Updated Genesis & Genesis 2 Products List & Thing To Be Aware Of

This is a list of Genesis products along with the current version numbers and some notes of things to be aware of when updating.

If a product has a Genesis version and other version it is indicate in most cases. If the version numbers between the Genesis and other version are different that is indicated. If just one version number is given an no distinction is given, the version number is the same for the Genesis and other version.

Products that have DSON specific files using the DSON Importer are indicated. Some products can be used with the DSON Importer but do not require having installed DSON specific files for them.

This list is not finished and more items need to be added to it and items all ready on it may get new versions if they are updated again.

The main list became so large that it is currently split up into multiple parts.

Part 1 is in this post and a link to the post that has Part 2 is after Part 2., etc.

Last updated refers to when I last updated the list not just one part of it.

Mike maintains the Non-Genesis Content with Metadata thread which lists what has been updated and the version number for those products.

1.) Some of the older uninstaller may not remove all files for the product you are removing. The older Read Me files will still be left most of the time.

2.) If you start getting errors, can't start Studio, or get told when installing an item Genesis can't be located , you need to reinstall Studio. One or more of the older uninstallers will remove some of the Genesis files and some Studio 4 files that it wasn't supposed to I discovered a few days ago when I couldn't launch Studio with out error messages after doing updates.

3.) Installing lots of content at once may cause Studio to have a problem when it goes to import the MetaData and crash. Periodically during your installs run Studio so the new MetaData can be imported in batches and not all at one, if you have several gigs to install. If you have to re-import all MetaData for Studio because of this or another problem, restart your computer first.

4.) Newer installers do not create a Read Me, which can make it difficult to determine what version you have of a product installed. Its even more difficult if you have any older Read Me files too that didn't get removed.

5.) If you bought the Genesis Evolution Morphs when they were first made available and they included as a free bonus the Genesis Evolution Expressions, you need to reset the Genesis Evolution Expressions product for them, as they are not part of the Genesis Evolution Morphs Bundle now. If you did buy them and they included the Expressions when you bought them and you don't see a Genesis Evolution Expressions product in you order history, you need to contact Daz's support.

6.) If you mouse over the uninstaller for a product it will in some cases will let you know what version you have installed if the Read Me files are of no help Uninstallers will be in were you installed the content.. The uninstallers for most people can be found in:

/DAZ 3D/Studio/My Libary /Unistallers

or

/DAZ 3D/Studio3/Content/Uinstallers

7.) Some other items haven't been updated but the separate MetaData installer isn't in the reset as it isn't needed. The main installers are supposed to install MetaData.

The separate MetaData installers were made in the hopes that a future version of Poser would be able to read MetaData.

8.) If you have problems with MetaData after updating, like exclamation points on items, duplicate MeatData items, the graphics for some items not showing up etc. You will need to do this.

A.) Go into Content Database Maintenance and Reset the the Database by choosing Reset Database and hitting Accept. This will remove all MetaData from the database and it will take several minutes to do. When the reset is finished go to Step B.

B.) Go into Content Database Maintenance and chose Re-Import MetaData and hit Accept. This will take several minutes for all the MetaData to be re imported. It can be over an hour depending on how much content you have. When the MetaData is has finished being re-imported go to step C.

C.) Check to see if this fixed your problems with the MetaData. If it did your finished and have nothing else to do. If it didn't go to step D.

D.) Uninstall and re-instal the items that have problems. Make sure the troubled items are fully uninstalled. Make sure you are installing them into the correct folder as this can be the cause of the problem. Repeat Steps A through C now. If it fixed it your finished. If it didn't go to Step E.

E.) Contact Daz support and tell them what is going on and what you have done to try and fix it. They can help you at this point.

These problems can occur with any product that has MetaData and not just Genesis specific ones.

9.) If you purchased a bundle and it doesn't have the latest version of a product that it includes in it when you go to download the newer version contact Daz support and tell them the product that needs to be updated in the bundle and the name of the files in the bundle that aren't current.

Support can take up to a few minutes to a week to get this fixed.

10.) If you get an error message when you try to download a file or your having the wrong file downloaded contact support so they can fix it.

11.) If you have Taiga for Genesis, Thorne has created a set of hair fit presets and posted some information on fitting hair if you are using that shape.

14.) Taozen has a DAZ History Manager to help with seeing what has been updated. It now checks to see if product pages indicates DSON files with your history. The link to the tread that deals with the DAZ History Manager, that contains a download link for it is at.

20.) Some uninstallers may not have obvious names and finding them can be difficult.

For example, the uninstaller for one version for Eastern Riding Wear was called B25RH.

If you can't find and uninstaller for a product in the uninstaller folder of your My Library or other folder your uninstaller is is in, look for the product in your start menu programs folders for the product and run the uninstaller from that when you find it that way.

21.) If space is available I've indicated if a product is for Genesis, Genesis 2 Males, Genesis 2 Females, and/or other figures.

If no indication of what a product is for is then it is for Genesis most likely.

22.) Some products only have a Download Install Manager (DIM) version and those are indicated in most cases by having DIM where a version number would be. The date of the last update of the DIM files is given when it is known.

23.) DAZ has removed all the installers version of products and just has DIM version now. Not everything has been updated and you only need to update products that have gotten updated since the older installer version was updated.

Thanx to Cypherfox for putting the initial list in order and catching some duplicates on the old list. Mike, Kendall, vwrangler, MickyBel, and everyone else for adding stuff and making comments.

Comments

Question, what prompted you to even think of checking to see if they were updated? Any idea why they all seemed to be updated based off your list? I can't find any sticky that mentions anything changing.

A lot of the older items had some duplicate files that cause a problem with the 4.5 RC from a post I read & some of the items got updated for other reasons.

I got promoted to check everything after readings some posts that seemed to indicate that just about all of the older Genesis items had gotten updated, but had no idea of exactly which ones except for a few.

The list came out of desire to prevent others from having to try and figure out what needs to be reset and in the hopes of having a Genesis update thread like the non-Genesis MetaData one will get created and maintained. Also , some of the few update threads I did find didn't have the most current version of a few items listed I discovered after doing a reset..

Thanks for taking the time to make this list and the warnings. There are two things the upset me (and many others, I'd guess) about the DAZ product update approach. They don't tell you that an update is available, and once you find it on your own, you still aren't told what changed. Just venting....

What exactly does it mean when the duplicate msg comes up? What does it do, what is the issue? I just click ok and my product still works like it should? I'm not going through all this effort to update when all I can do is click ok on the error msg and continue working just fine.

A script was made to deals with the duplicate formula warnings that 4.5 RC gives that you could run so everything didn't need to be uninstalled and reinstalled I'm trying to find the post that was made on it. and put a link to it in the notes.

If some one happens to rest the V5, M5, Hitomi, or Classics Bundle please post the files that got updated and I'll add them in since I didn't type them up and only gt a few of the current ones from other threads. One of the hair styles in the V5 bundle has a different version number for the Genesis and Gen4 version of it if I remember correctly.

In my case, I reset "Day Dreamer for Genesis" and as of 12-Jul-2012 14:49EDT the filename I was given was:

13302_DayDreamerGen_v1.3_ds.exe

So, according to the filename the version is "1.3"

That's what I'm working from.

Kendall

Hehe, thanks Kendall. It's surprising how easy it is to miss something right in front of our face but I have that problem in spades at times ;)

Unfortunately, with some of the older content it isn't so straight forward. That's one of the reasons I wan't metadata in all of the content. That way I can check the DB or Metadata file for the version info.

Here's a list of ones I have that aren't on your list, including the separate elements of the M5 Pro Bundle. For ones I own I've included the date of my last download reset. Also, one item on your list has been updated: SciFi Boots Female for Genesis (1.3) 2-Jul

Well Goddamn! If all of these constant updates are going to do stuff like THAT to my DS, I might as well just completely rid my system of every single thing that has "DAZ 3D" on it and reinstall everything from scratch! :grrr:

Thanks Kendall and Mike I'll got a new list up and still have things to add in the next few days.

The list is going to change it looks like to a list of what the current version of all Genesis products are, even if they haven't been updated.

RCDeschene if you see a 1.0 next to an item it most likely hasn't been updated.

Abominable was at 1.0 when first released and still is at 1.0. One item Catgirl Genesis that I added to the updated list that will be up in a day or two was at 1.2 when I first bought it months ago and it still is at 1.2 as of just a few hours ago.

Most of of the 1.0 items Mike posted and I added in the newest version are texture expansions and they haven't been update. DAZ did remove the separate MetaData installers for some expansion items that haven't been updated. Many of the hair expansions had this done to them.

Hope that helps so you don't have to remove everything and just start installing DAZ stuff from the ground up.

Keeping up wit all the Genesis and MetaData updates for non-Genesis stuff can be a major headache. I had well over 100 gigs of newer installers for products I had installed during the first week of June and now managed to get it to 8, and more items were getting added in those weeks. I'm currently burnt out from updating and haven't been able to finish the last few gigs because of that.

Trying to remember what was a genesis item and what wasn't was another.

Daz is going to have an updater from what I understand in a newer version of Studio that can auto update products.

Found 2 more things to be aware of when updating.

I noticed this last night about Read Me files.

Roxana Yaroslavna, Vampire Lady For Genesis is currently at 1.5.

The version I had in before updating to 1.5 was 1.3.

In my Read Me files I have a 1.4 Read Me for the product, but I never installed 1.4.

So some updates might have been very minor that Daz didn't update the Read Me file for them it looks like.

Noticed this when during downloads.

I had a download link product listed as 1.0 and some others give no version number. When downloading I discovered that they had been updated .. The 1.0 item was actually a 1.2 item. This is also something to be aware of if you are looking at the order for a product to see what files it includes.